New Tools Will Help Construction Industry Understand Its Carbon Footprint
By Logan Nagel, Propmodo Daily
While a global climate change discussion (or perhaps, argument) is occurring in cities around the world, one of the practical hurdles to limiting carbon emissions is in the field of construction. While transportation and electricity are the biggest sources of carbon emissions, construction also represents a major source of greenhouse gases.
That doesn’t just mean the carbon produced by generators and machinery. The embodied carbon within materials is a major carbon creator, too; cement alone could be responsible for 8 percent of the world’s total carbon emissions.
The simplest solution might be limiting construction activities. But just like driving and electricity production, there’s not likely to happen, particularly in light of the massive demand for space around the world today."
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